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Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body

Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body

Prawdzik, Brendan

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Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1474441289
ISBN13: 9781474441285
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 13 2018
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explains the presence of theatre in John Milton and its centrality to his politics and poetry
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage--to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate--rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.

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